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In Holding Company, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty, and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, and Dante Rossetti.from "Jewel-Tongued"The stillness of a lover's mouthassaulted me. I never wearied of anecdoteson the Commons, gesturing until I scatteredmyself into a luminance, shining over a cityof women. Was I less human or more? I hear stillmy breathing echoing off their pillows. So manyeyes like crushed flowers. Our fingers splayedover a bed's edge. We were blown away.NER(01): WOW
